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Flora E. Fortner - Madison Parish, Louisiana 

From Vicksburg Evening Post November 13, 1947

FORTNER RITES DUE AT TALLULAH THIS AFTERNOON
Prominent Resident Of Madison Parish Succumbs

TALLULAH, La, Nov. 13-Funeral services will be held at 3 o'clock this afternoon for Mrs. Fortner, 
prominent Madison Parish resident who died after a long illness. The Rev. John Kilpatrick, pastor 
of the Tallulah Methodist Church will officiate at the services and burial will be in the Silver 
Cross cemetery.

Mrs. Fortner was a native of Mississippl, and a former resident of, Jackson. She had lived for 
many years on Briers Plantation south of Tallulah. She was a member of the Tallulah Methodist 
Church, and the Woman's Society for Christian Service. She was also a member of the Tallulah 
Book Club and active in Home Demonstration Club work.

She is survived by a son, Douglas, and a daughter, Miss Fortner of Gulfport; a sister, Mrs. N. V. 
Sheppard of Utica and two grandchildren of Tallulah.